Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] more [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this a man of much more style than substance , and what test would you use to determine whether he 's had a good hundred days or a bad hundred days ? |
| 2 | This was partly through his articles , in which he placed as much emphasis on the soft parts as on the hard parts of the anatomy , although the former , for obvious reasons , must be the subject of much more speculation than the latter . |
| 3 | This insignificant looking page is of much more importance than might appear . |
| 4 | Though they were the subjects of much more inquiry than the ‘ respectable ’ working classes ( but in this generation distinctly less so than before 1848 or after 1880 ) , we really know very little about anything except their poverty and squalor . |
| 5 | Most known nuclear species are in fact unstable , so the laser provides us with a single technique to measure directly shapes , sizes and magnetic moments of many more nuclei than we could study before . |
| 6 | One unit was composed of many more buildings than the others and it is suggested that it represents a social difference with specialist activities taking place there . |
| 7 | No sign of any more money than is needed to keep the wolf from the door . |
| 8 | VUPP had nearly 13% of first preference votes and 18% of seats , the equivalent of four more seats than the ten which their first preference votes would appear to warrant . |
| 9 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 10 | The accusations are not disputed by Chikatilo , who led police to the site of 19 more murders than he was originally believed to have committed . |
| 11 | The students were given three lectures a day ( Simonds was strongly against any more lecturing than this ) and it was estimated that 50 to 60 horses were available for examination each day . |
| 12 | I acquired the relapsing type of the disease there , together with 11 000 other troops of the British Eighth Army , during the Second World War ; in the six-week campaign in the summer of 1943 , malaria accounted for many more casualties than the battles . |
| 13 | In recent years , particularly in the USA , there have been a number of statements and recommendations put out by committees and similar bodies with some more authority than individual practitioners . |
| 14 | No chair , I would very much like it to be looked at in great detail by the budget review committee , actually , you 'll see in the report that many of these problems were identified as areas of concern by the district auditor prior to the signing of the contract , and he was given , it seems , various assurances which may or may not have been met , and I would like to go into much more detail than would be possible with this committee . |
| 15 | His remark flashed through her head , stirring her anger , making her respond to André with much more warmth than she normally would have . |
| 16 | First , without doubt the Supplement is a more practical guide , more heavily illustrated , with much more specificity than the general advice proffered by DB32 , a change which is bound to encourage more innovation among the more timid local authorities . |
| 17 | ‘ His faculties seem to expand every day , ’ Dorothy wrote in early March ; ‘ he composes with much more facility than he did , as to the mechanism of poetry , and his ideas flow faster than he can express them . |
| 18 | Power was slipping into the hands of important feudal vassals , and men like the rulers of Hyderabad in the south and of Bengal in the east were emerging with much more power than they had enjoyed in the previous half-century . |
| 19 | Constance had barely heard of it but said , with much more confidence than she was feeling , ‘ No , but I hope Ludo will take me there soon . ’ |
| 20 | There are many excellent texts on mineral identification , all with much more detail than can be included here . |
| 21 | Now that the barriers with Eastern Europe have been removed , businesses need to translate documents into many more languages than just those of the EC member states . |
| 22 | It was not clear whether he caught the aside from one witness that Nicolae and Elena 's speeches and writings were translated into many more languages than that . |
| 23 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 24 | If an organisation like a local authority does not have clear and effective channels of internal communication , then how will it manage to communicate with the communities it serves when , through the white-collar CCT process , it speaks with many more voices than at present ? |
| 25 | Certainly the taciturn detective has to deal with many more murders than the average Thames Valley policeman . |
| 26 | And his librettist , Alessandro Striggio , son of the composer , provided him with many more opportunities than Rinuccini to break up the recitative with musically attractive relief : extended madrigalian choruses and strophic solos such as Orfeo 's lilting ‘ Vi ricordo ’ in Act II ( accompanied only by continuo instruments , but with ritornelli played by five viole da braccio , a contrabass , two harpsichords , and three chitarroni ) , his display piece ‘ Possente spirto ’ in Act III ( accompanied by organo di legno and a chitarrone , but in the four stanzas competing with brilliant concertante parts for two violini , then two cornetti , a double-harp , and finally a string trio ) , and his swinging ‘ Qual honor ’ in Act IV ( varied strophes for the voice over an ostinato bass ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't want to go into any more detail than absolutely necessary . |
| 28 | The antipathy to any large-scale popular participation in running public affairs , which shows itself constantly in many more forms than those which I have mentioned here by way of illustration , has been incorporated in several different ways into political science . |
| 29 | Suffice it to say that the offence can now be committed in many more places than before . |
| 30 | Clearly Study 2 differs from Study 1 in many more ways than the fact that subjects were not actually driving — the range of situations used was dramatically different , individual junctions were repeated , there was no obvious navigational context , and so on . |